Wow, seriously guys. I was expecting people to debate the moral standing of making money off of simply modifying the work of someone else. Instead all I see see is "Wah, I don't want to pay for stuff". A bit disappointing really.
Don't see this ending too well for Valve, the idea's prettyyyy dumb and goes entirely against the point of mods to begin with.
While I don't have a problem with people who put a lot of time and effort into their work getting paid, this is the Steam Workshop we're talking about here. Optional donations, sure, but locking sword reskins behind a $0.99 paywall is just atrocious.
Funny, I thought the point was to modify something for whatever purpose the creator of the mod chooses, but no, apparently the point of a mod is just to be free.
Also, any one charges a dollar for a reskin is just being stupid and they shouldn't be surprised when nobody uses it...... wait a minute, now that I think about isn't that what valve has been doing with TF2 for a while now, only more expensive............ does that render my previous point false?